Theatre Maker |Director |Writer
Jenna is a multi award-winning Scottish theatre maker. Since 2008, she has been making contemporary theatre in Scotland and the UK, her previous theatre works include: Tetra-decathlon, Faslane, How You Gonna Live Your Dash and Flâneurs.
Utilising both a directing and playwriting process, Jenna’s practice explores contemporary sociopolitical issues by applying an immersive and autobiographical approach to creating contemporary theatre. In 2018 she was recipient of Magnetic North’s Artist’s Attachment. In 2019, in addition to her theatre degree, she gained an MSc in Sustainable Rural Development and her practice now encompasses the exploration of interdependent relationships between performance, sustainability, rewilding, ecological grief and ecofeminism.
As a freelance director, Jenna works across the sector, collaborating with theatre makers and directing new writing by new and established writers and young people. She’s worked on large scale productions, small scale touring and rehearsed readings. As a writer, Jenna has been commissioned by both arts organisations and non-arts organisations and regularly works with other writers in a mentoring and dramaturgical role. Jenna works regularly with educational institutions to provide mentoring support during creative processes to students.
Outside of theatre, in 2019 Jenna worked with Hopscotch Productions to present Nukes, Subs and Secrets (Dir. Brian Ross) for BBC Scotland.
During lockdown Jenna authored Hindsight, her first work of non-fiction for Birlinn publications, which was long listed for the 2022 Highland Book Prize
Jenna has worked with companies including; The National Theatre of Scotland, Playwright’s Studio Scotland, Traverse Theatre, Magnetic North, Tron Theatre, Cumbernauld Theatre, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow University, Contact-Manchester, Unlimited Theatre, Northern Stage, Made In China, The Macrobert, Scottish Youth Theatre, Scottish Drama Training Network, Buzzcut Glasgow, The Arches, Forest Fringe, Junction 25, Lung Ha Theatre Company, National Review of Live Art, The Basement -Brighton, Edinburgh Science Festival and the Arnolfini.